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J&J’s booster shot provides strong protection against severe disease from Omicron, a study says.
A Johnson & Johnson booster shot provided strong protection against the Omicron variant, greatly reducing the risk of hospitalization, according…
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Años Viejos: Torching the Old Year to Toast the New One
Every December, Jaime Ivan Salazar and his family, like many in Colombia, Ecuador and other parts of Latin America, construct…
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Can a Tiny Territory in the South Pacific Power Tesla’s Ambitions?
Nickel is vital to electric car batteries, but extracting it is dirty and destructive. A plant with a turbulent history…
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A World Divided by Covid and Other Ills United to Explore Space
America was a nation divided, but that did not stop it from building parts of the James Webb Space Telescope…
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In 2021, We Were There: The Year’s 14 Most Popular Dispatches
As the world reopened cautiously in 2021, our correspondents seized the chance to venture out in search of stories that…
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Your Thursday Briefing
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in an undated photo that was used as evidence in her trial.Credit...US District Court for…
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Biden and Putin Will Hold a Call on Ukraine
President Biden will talk to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday about the grinding crisis at the Ukrainian…
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Singapore charges a man accused of lending out his vaccination record, and other international news.
The police in Singapore charged a man after he was accused of allowing another person to use his proof of…
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A Janitor’s Colleagues Put Him on the Fast Track to Retirement
At 64, Alfredo Lupi, a janitor at a factory in Graffignana, an industrial town southeast of Milan, was less than…
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As Russian Threat Looms, Ukraine’s Government Is No Laughing Matter
KYIV, Ukraine — Nations have chosen their leaders from among many fields, including the military and academia, but Ukraine’s government…